Summary
Shir Brass is a Technical Lead based in Tel Aviv with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-performance full-stack products and developer platforms. Comfortable from low-level performance tuning to product-facing UIs, Shir has led teams and single-handedly driven flagship products like Outplayed, reimplemented web infrastructure on Next.js 14, and optimized complex visual components such as hotels maps for large data volumes. They bring deep practical expertise in React/TypeScript, Node.js, C#, ffmpeg workflows and backend systems, paired with a history of improving developer experience and test coverage across organizations. An advocate for code quality and learning, Shir has acted as a Frontend Guild Master and driven migrations from legacy stacks to modern APIs and clients. Shir also contributes to notable open-source projects like grpc-node with careful performance-minded refactors, reflecting a preference for pragmatic, standards-aligned improvements. Colleagues know them for balancing product insight with engineering rigor to ship maintainable, high-performance software.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The Hebrew reali School
English, Hebrew